A World That We Never Made chords by Dear Landlord

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Intermediate

Intro:
BB
G#G# E MajorE
BB G#G# E MajorE

Verse 1:
BB
Don't fuck with perfection, this really is a masterpiece
  G#G#      F#F#      E MajorE
The brainchild of assholes with everything to lose
BB
Hellbent on forcing the burden from religion
   G#G#        F#F#         E MajorE   F#F#
That demands if you're fucked, you'll stay fucked forever

Chorus:
BB   F#F#        C# minorC#m        E MajorE    BB
Try to kill the sound of all your hopes and dreams
     F#F#        C# minorC#m      E MajorE
It's easy street inside the gears of their machines
     BB     C# minorC#m    E MajorE
Yeah, we do what we can to get by

Verse 2:
BB
Like holding back the urge to walk into traffic
  G#G#                            F#F#
And when the worker's rights start cutting into the profits, what's left?
         E MajorE            BB
Eleven hour days leave you just enough to forget them
BB
It's just a choice between a gun and a bottle
G#G#
Don't know which one you'll reach for when you punch out tomorrow
G+G              E MajorE
So now get busy dying or get busy forgetting
      F#F#
There's no way to win in a world that you never made

Solo:
BB G#G# E MajorE
BB G#G# G+G

Bridge:
BB              D#D#
It's reliable failure we've all come to know
    G#G#     F#F#     E MajorE
At the end of the day misery is all alone
BB
The American dream is just saltpeter and shame
       G#G#    F#F#     E MajorE     F#F#
And now we're desperate grabbing a fistful of rain

Chorus:
BB   F#F#        C# minorC#m        E MajorE    BB
Try to kill the sound of all your hopes and dreams
     F#F#        C# minorC#m      E MajorE
It's easy street inside the gears of their machines
     BB     C# minorC#m
Yeah, we do what we can
      G#G#     E MajorE     F#F#
Yeah, just do what you can to get by

Verse 3:
  BB           F#F#
And stay right where they want you
       G#G#
There to hold onto
         F#F#
Things that will haunt you
            BB
Night after night after night
           F#F#
Stay right where they want you
              G#G#
You might believe that it's all true
          F#F#
Can you ignore what will haunt you
       E MajorE
Every single night?

Interlude:
E MajorE D#D# BB
F#F# G#G# E MajorE

Bridge:
    BB           F#F#
All our fears just to keep us down
        G#G#         E MajorE
There's nothing here on our side of town
     BB        F#F#
Nothing's saved, it's been replaced
     G#G#                  E MajorE
Now it's buried in the rubble of a world that we never made
    BB        F#F#
All our fears to keep us down
        G#G#         E MajorE
There's nothing here on our side of town
     BB        F#F#
Nothing's saved, it's been replaced
     G#G#                  E MajorE
Now it's buried in the rubble of a world that we never made

Solo:
     BB       F#F#      G#G#        E MajorE
e|----------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|----------------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|-4-4-3-4-------4-4-3-4------4-4-3-4-----------------------------|
D MajorD|---------4-------------4------------4-4-2-1-4-1-4-2-4-2-1-------|
A augmentedA|----------------------------------------------------------2-----|
E MajorE|----------------------------------------------------------------|

Outro:
E MajorE